Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Fire Ant Farm]

I have pics, too!

So, one of the reasons I kept Tank (who maxed out at about 8 pounds) is because he grew so early and fast, and was, well, a Tank as a baby. I went back and looked at his data - 6.5 oz at 2 weeks, outstripping al the others. I wondered how much the growth characteristics would carry over when crossing over with GNH girls, and, indeed, most of the boys are over 6 oz, and a few approaching 7 oz. So, pretty good. Also, I'm thinking I have 9 boys and 1 little girl. Some selected photos. (Sorry, I know they look a little dirty - I use peat under the bedding. Also, this is the first weighing, so they are looking at the scale like "What the...")







The only girl:

 

[GabrielBane]

I always love the first interaction with the scale LOL!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I always love the first interaction with the scale LOL!

Yeah - like this one - "What am I standing on?!":

 

[Kev]

This might be my favorite from those pics. Seems to be solidly built.


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Like him too, with the slightly longer legs(I like tall chickens lol). personally am not really a fan of very early maturing roosters, dude has red and early thickening in comb already. Suspect this one will reach his end size quickly. Be interesting to compare this one with the cockerel above..

Bit of surprise the pullet is so slow to feather. Usually the girls feather out faster.. did the GNH pullets feather out fast or slow?

 

[Kev]

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I designed them after finally getting fed up with leaning over brooders on the floor. They actually come apart - they are made out of panels, and then they bolt to each other and to the plywood base through holes using carriage bolts, washers and nuts. So I can take them apart to clean and to store flat. I got some iron rods and you can then use one over the top to hang feeders/waterers when the chicks are bigger (at 2 weeks I already have them on a hanging feeder, and looks like I'll need to increase the size by how big they were this morning). I made a modification and screwed an additional furring board along the bottom to reduce the amount of bedding that gets kicked out. It still comes out (they kick high!), but at least there's less.

They sit on a folding table I got at Lowes (6ft long by 30" wide).

Want me to send you my cut list?

- Ant Farm


Extremely nice brooder. Wish I was as half as handy as you are. Quite clever to have the whole set up including table to be storage friendly.

Hope this is not rude.. just curious- can I ask why wire on the back side instead of solid? My thoughts on that is protecting the wall, chicks would not be able to kick out anything in that direction etc. (in that location I'd have went for two solid sides, both sides facing the wall) I was also thinking about making a higher barrier around the bottom but I see you already thought of that- chicks definitely are kickers lol

as for my set up- it's the metal GQF stacking brooders. Not pretty but a blessing for my allergies and sheer number of chicks I get sometimes.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Nice chicks! Is it me or am I seeing a huge feather influence from the GNH? Those chicks have extremely nice feathers already, broad, well colored and showing shine. They're going to be beautiful NN!

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Like him too, with the slightly longer legs(I like tall chickens lol). personally am not really a fan of very early maturing roosters, dude has red and early thickening in comb already. Suspect this one will reach his end size quickly. Be interesting to compare this one with the cockerel above..

Bit of surprise the pullet is so slow to feather. Usually the girls feather out faster.. did the GNH pullets feather out fast or slow?

Thanks! Tank also was "A BOY!!!!!" very early (most of them were), but actual sexual maturity wasn't super fast until about 15-20 weeks (vs. the Cream Legbars - vicious little boys who try to mount at 5 weeks). I honestly don't remember the GNH chick feathering boy vs. girl.

Tank at 2.5 weeks (he's in front):



Tank at 3 weeks:



All these boys are REALLY tall - I have to be sure I don't raise the feeder too high so the little girl can't reach.

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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I designed them after finally getting fed up with leaning over brooders on the floor. They actually come apart - they are made out of panels, and then they bolt to each other and to the plywood base through holes using carriage bolts, washers and nuts. So I can take them apart to clean and to store flat. I got some iron rods and you can then use one over the top to hang feeders/waterers when the chicks are bigger (at 2 weeks I already have them on a hanging feeder, and looks like I'll need to increase the size by how big they were this morning). I made a modification and screwed an additional furring board along the bottom to reduce the amount of bedding that gets kicked out. It still comes out (they kick high!), but at least there's less.

They sit on a folding table I got at Lowes (6ft long by 30" wide).

Want me to send you my cut list?

- Ant Farm


Extremely nice brooder. Wish I was as half as handy as you are. Quite clever to have the whole set up including table to be storage friendly.

Hope this is not rude.. just curious- can I ask why wire on the back side instead of solid? My thoughts on that is protecting the wall, chicks would not be able to kick out anything in that direction etc. (in that location I'd have went for two solid sides, both sides facing the wall) I was also thinking about making a higher barrier around the bottom but I see you already thought of that- chicks definitely are kickers lol

as for my set up- it's the metal GQF stacking brooders. Not pretty but a blessing for my allergies and sheer number of chicks I get sometimes.

No particular reason.

Just to allow lots of ventilation, I guess.

I didn't used to be handy. Then I built a coop. Had to sort of teach myself...

 

[Chknluver]

I have pics, too! So, one of the reasons I kept Tank (who maxed out at about 8 pounds) is because he grew so early and fast, and was, well, a Tank as a baby. I went back and looked at his data - 6.5 oz at 2 weeks, outstripping al the others. I wondered how much the growth characteristics would carry over when crossing over with GNH girls, and, indeed, most of the boys are over 6 oz, and a few approaching 7 oz. So, pretty good. Also, I'm thinking I have 9 boys and 1 little girl. Some selected photos. (Sorry, I know they look a little dirty - I use peat under the bedding. Also, this is the first weighing, so they are looking at the scale like "What the...") [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] The only girl: [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR]

What is GNH abbreviated for? Just never heard of a GNH.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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My apologies. German New Hampshire.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I am thinking/wondering/worrying that the little girl is stunted because sh'e getting shoved around and may not be getting to the feeder very well. I think that once they are old enough, I may put her back with this new set of chicks that just went into lock down, in the hopes she gets a better shot at the food. She'll be 2 weeks older than them, but she's small, and I'm expecting these (Puppy's and Snapes babies) to be big. Thoughts?

(@Kev or anyone else...)